My thoughts on Bitcoin’s current dip after casually watching it go from $69,000 to $16,000 in the last cycle.

I don’t need a new car to prove anything. I’d rather stack Bitcoin and buy time, freedom, and peace of mind. Priorities.

It’s crazy that people think Bitcoin has been boring this year when it’s up like 75%.

Bitcoiners are great at pointing out what’s broken in the system. But we sometimes forget how lucky we are to live in a time where Bitcoin exists. Before, you just had to accept currency debasement. Now, anyone, anywhere can opt out. That’s a privilege.

When I bought my house in 2017, it was worth 24.6 Bitcoin. Now it’s worth 3.7 Bitcoin. Yet when priced in £s, it’s gone up by 35%. If you save in £s you afford less over time. If you save in BTC the picture looks very different.

Since Oct 2023 I’ve mostly lived off Bitcoin. Back then 1 BTC was about £28.5k, today it’s ~£85k. That’s made life feel around 3x more affordable than my peers and it means I get to save more each month. Sometimes the impact of Bitcoin shows up most in the everyday stuff.

2 years ago today I walked away from the first startup I founded. I poured my heart and soul into it for years, was incredibly proud of what we were building, and felt like we were finally gaining traction. But in 2023, after a string of family health scares and the news that we had a baby on the way, I realised I couldn’t keep going the way I was. I had made a classic mistake: building product first and trying to figure out the business model later (I definitely would not recommend this). That meant I was constantly playing catch up. 80-hour weeks became the norm, and the people I was supposedly “doing this for” were the ones I was neglecting most. It took those life events to shake me into realising something I’d overlooked: hustling, titles, social media followers, even “success” itself doesn’t matter if you’re sacrificing what’s truly important. Don’t get me wrong, I believe you can build something meaningful and still have time for family. But when your job or business is your life, that’s when it becomes dangerous. At the end of the day, meaningful relationships are the only thing that carry through every stage of your life. Everything else is temporary.

Inflation and years in which your purchasing power is halved: 2% (the target) = 35 years 4% = 17 years 7% = 10 years 10% = 7 years 14% = 5 years 17% = 4 years 20% = 3.5 years Bitcoin fixes this.

Most people think of “digital ID” as just a card on your phone. The real issue is the centralised database behind it. Linking everything about you into one system doesn’t just create a surveillance risk. It creates a massive security vulnerability. Once that data is breached or misused, you can’t put it back in the box. It also hands government unprecedented control. The ability to link, track, or even restrict access to everyday life is not something any free society should give up lightly. Privacy isn’t just about liberty, it’s about safety. Centralising sensitive data in this way puts both at risk.

This is why I Bitcoin.

It’s crazy how the Core vs Knots debate differs between people on Nostr and X. Across Nostr, people seem to at least be debating. On X, it’s just pure tribalism and people popping off on each other 🙈

Bitcoin doesn’t need politicians. Politicians need Bitcoin.